• Question: what is the coldest every temperture every recird?

    Asked by swearingcorn98 to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 26 Apr 2012.
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      Pete Etchells answered on 26 Apr 2012:


      Hi swearingcorn98! I think the coldest ever natural temperature that was recorded on Earth was at the South Pole, and was about -90 degrees. But the coldest ever recorded temperature was recorded in 1999, by scientists who managed to get a piece of rhodium to a temperature of just above Absolute Zero, which is about -273 degrees! Absolute zero is the theoretically lowest temperature that anything in the universe could get to, but we’ve not actually seen it yet.

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